Floating Strip Got Snow Card

What better way to associate Christmas with snow, right?!  Especially in Southern California where we don't much snow in December (let alone any month).  Okay, maybe you'll get some at the higher elevations, but not in San Diego.

For this challenge, I found the floating strip technique on Pinterest quite some time ago, and thought this would be a perfect fit.  It's perfect for using up scraps you have lying around (or filed away!)

Strips of paper of various widths are adhered to a transparency sheet.  Space it out as much or as little as you want.  I kept mine spaced the same.

I decided to cut my rectangles with a thin cut that included the scored border.  You don't have to do that if you don't want to (or don't have the thin cut/die cut to do so).  I just wanted to add a little "texture" to my card.

The snowflakes are also thin cuts I've had for awhile.  That's the beauty of buying things - you can still use them even after they aren't for sale anymore.  The larger snowflake I cut from White Glitter Paper (Z3237).  The smaller snowflake is Majestic Holographic Paper (Z3675).

I ran a strip of White Daisy through the rectangular thin cut so that my saying would be embossed too.  Then I cut them into strips, stamped them with my saying, and banner cut them.

Banner Cuts Made Simple:

• rotate the paper you want to banner
• eye the middle of the paper and cut upward as far as you want the banner to be.  This will make it so that the two sides will be equal distant from each end (assuming you cut in the middle)
• rotate the paper back to its original orientation
• cut from the corner of the paper to the top of the middle cut4
• rotate the paper and cut the other corner to the middle cut

Putting it together:

Once I cut out the snowflakes and floating rectangles, the cards were ready to assemble.  The true effect of the floating strips are achieved by lifting that element off the card base.  So, 3D Foam was used under the strips to give it dimension.  Then the snowflakes were adhered to the rectangle.

Once that was done, I added individual Blue Belle Sequins (Z3676) to the card with Liquid Glass (Z679) and Pick Up Tool (Z4325).

Done!

An Aside:

You have to try the Pick Up Tool!!  I thought I didn't need it - I had gotten along so well without for so long - but enough people said how much they liked it that I figured I had to try it too! OMG, this tool is amazing!!  It holds onto the individual sequin and allows me to place them right where I want them.  No more struggling with my tweezers (because before sometimes the sequin would move when I removed the tweezers).  You get 2 - 9" tools that you sharpen with a pencil sharpener.  They'll last a long time, and are only $6.50.  Money well spent, I think!